Bentley Systems Announces Acquisition of Mobility Simulation Leader INRO
To Extend Mobility Digital Twins for Dynamic Multimodal Simulation
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Image produced with Emme (www.inrosoftware.com/emme) using data from Metro (https://www.oregonmetro.gov/) (Image courtesy of INRO)
INRO, based in
INRO’s products include Emme, a multimodal transportation planning system for urban, regional, and national transportation forecasting; Dynameq, a vehicle-based traffic simulation platform for city-wide traffic planning; and CityPhi, a mobility visualization solution providing data visualization and visual analytics of large-scale mobility and geospatial datasets.
Combining the capabilities of INRO’s advanced traffic and vehicle simulation with Bentley’s passenger and pedestrian simulation and civil design software, including CUBE, Streetlytics, LEGION, and OpenRoads, places Bentley in a very strong position to deliver comprehensive mobility digital twins of multimodal transportation systems at urban, metropolitan, regional, and national scale.
Advancing Mobility Digital Twins
Urban planners are seeking to understand the ongoing impacts—on transportation system performance, reliability, and accessibility—of the new opportunities and challenges of private and shared mobility, the propensity for cycling or walking, connected autonomous vehicles, and potential congestion charging. With respect to their traditionally circumscribed use of transportation modeling tools in isolation and only on occasion, multiple advantages are now attainable through mobility digital twins, which can be continuously updated with as-operated engineering conditions and with observed traffic data. Mobility digital twins bring these functions together so that infrastructure planning and simulations can be continuously valuable throughout engineering, construction, and operations.
The pandemic experience reinforces the resilience value of sustaining “evergreen” planning and engineering modeling and simulation to maintain fitness for purpose during unanticipated eventualities. With the priority now on “building back better,” it is increasingly recognized that the most economical way to augment infrastructure capacity, while accomplishing the needed energy transitions toward climate sustainability, is to optimize the utilization, configuration, and life extension of existing mobility assets, while adding integrated and appealing public transit options.
This requirement now sets the stage for mobility digital twins that need to be multimodal, need detailed dynamic traffic assignment and agent-based methods for veracity, and need to scale up to systemwide and regionwide—uniquely hallmarks of INRO. As the leader in infrastructure digital twins, Bentley’s iTwin platform can now bring together—with the best-validated aggregate and individual vehicle and pedestrian simulation—3D/4D continuous surveying and reality modeling, civil engineering and project delivery, and asset and network performance. Ultimately, the opportunity for digital cities is to save their constituents time in their day, while at the same time improving congestion and climate resilience, and safety.
“We are very pleased to welcome INRO to Bentley Systems,” said
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Image 1: Emme
Caption: Image produced with Emme (www.inrosoftware.com/emme) using data from Metro (https://www.oregonmetro.gov/)
Image 2: Dynameq
Caption: Image produced with Dynameq (www.inrosoftware.com/dynameq) using data from SFCTA (https://www.sfcta.org/)
Image 3: CityPhi
Caption: Image produced with CityPhi (www.inrosoftware.com/cityphi) using data from http://www.andresmh.com/nyctaxitrips/
Image 4: INRO Products
Caption: INRO is a global leader in multimodal transportation planning, traffic simulation, and mobility visualization software
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Caption: Illustration of ~20 million activities completed over the course of a day by 3.6 million people from a synthesized travel demand model of the
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